Bandwidth Management

Traffic Management

UBM Manager's Bandwidth Management services gives you the capability of effectively managing Internet usage and performance for your IT network. It is possible to manage bandwidth speed, quality, reliability and access for your Internet connections by creating various bandwidth rules. This is achieved through specific Bandwidth Management software technology.

Bandwidth problems in organisations

Web pages that download very slowly or fail to load are commonly caused by a lack of bandwidth from the Internet connection. If many users are sending or receiving information at the same time than the bandwidth capacity can handle, then this can cause delays and network congestion.

In an organisation with many Internet end users, it is difficult for the network administrator to know what applications are being run on their computers. Therefore if a particular user is downloading a large file and this affects other users then it is important that the network administrator can identify this and resolve it as soon as possible.

Internet connections and networks that are poorly managed can potentially create problems (bandwidth abuse) and affect the quality of service that the organisation provides through their Internet. Improving the quality of service (QoS) through just adding more Internet bandwidth is not an ideal solution as it does not guarantee anything.

In order to ensure that the Internet connection is utilised efficiently, an organisation must control the bandwidth so that it stays below the maximum capacity of the Internet connection.

What is Bandwidth Management?

Bandwidth Management is a QoS (Quality of Service) tool and is the process of monitoring and controlling the end users Internet traffic and data flow on your organisation’s IT network. This helps to avoid overloading an Internet connections’ bandwidth capacity, which otherwise would result in network congestion and result in poor speed and quality performance. Bandwidth Management can change the rate and volume of traffic flows on your organisation IT network in a controlled manner.

What are the possibilities of Bandwidth Management?

With Bandwidth Management you can maximise the use of available bandwidth. Internet Bandwidth availability can be configured, controlled, and monitored from a central point. Using Bandwidth Management technology, traffic routing policies can be created for each individual Internet connection linked to the Load Balancer. This involves allocating different levels of bandwidth for different business priorities such as:

• Bandwidth Management for end users

  Bandwidth access and priority can be given to different users such as management, employees, departments, etc. For example, management can have priority to more bandwidth then employees.

• Bandwidth Management for Tasks/Applications

  With multiple Internet connections it is also possible to allocate traffic from a specific application such as VoIP and video-conferencing which requires continuous bandwidth to a single connection. This is crucial for applications that require a constant flow of bandwidth without any interruptions such as VoIP. Organisations can also use for example two high capacity connections for Applications and another low capacity connection for email.

• Bandwidth Management for Time/Traffic peak

  Bandwidth levels can be altered and scheduled according to time, which is ideal for meeting high traffic periods. Bandwidth consumption can be monitored to manage unexpected traffic increases and controlled instantly.

• Failover and traffic re-distribution

  Policies can also be set up to distribute traffic down another Internet connection if a primary connection fails to ensure continuous service for the user.

Bandwidth Management can be used with a Load Balancer for Load Balancing Solutions.